Glass jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Small one-handled jug Translucent pale bluish green, with translucent deep purple handle. Rounded tubular rim folded out, over, and in to flaring mouth; short, concave neck; globular body; integral tubular base ring; flat bottom with small central indent; rod handle applied to upper body in a large pad with tooling indent, drawn out and up, tooled in to flat projection, then turned in and trailed on to rim, with another tooled projection above. Intact; some pinprick bubbles and glassy inclusions in body; dulling, iridescence, and weathering on body.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. The geographic regions represented are Greece and Italy, but not as delimited by modern political frontiers: Greek colonies were established around the Mediterranean basin and on the shores of the Black Sea, and Cyprus became increasingly Hellenized. For Roman art, the geographical limits coincide with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The department also exhibits the art of prehistoric Greece (Helladic, Cycladic, and Minoan) and pre-Roman art of Italic peoples, notably the Etruscans.

Metropolitan Museum of Art